Here in the US, this has been pretty standard for the last 100+ years. Maybe longer. I'm curious as to if other countries practice this or not. Example; Sally O'Brien marries Tommy McCarthy. Now Sally is Sally McCarthy.

Also, is this a Christian Tradition? Big T or little t?

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Here in the US, this has been pretty standard for the last 100+ years. Maybe longer. I'm curious as to if other countries practice this or not. Example; Sally O'Brien marries Tommy McCarthy. Now Sally is Sally McCarthy.

Also, is this a Christian Tradition? Big T or little t?

In Ethiopian tradition, children take their father's first name as their surname, and when women are married they keep their original surname (i.e., their father's first name)

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Here in the US, this has been pretty standard for the last 100+ years. Maybe longer. I'm curious as to if other countries practice this or not. Example; Sally O'Brien marries Tommy McCarthy. Now Sally is Sally McCarthy.

Also, is this a Christian Tradition? Big T or little t?

In Ethiopian tradition, children take their father's first name as their surname, and when women are married they keep their original surname (i.e., their father's first name)

Here in the US, this has been pretty standard for the last 100+ years. Maybe longer. I'm curious as to if other countries practice this or not. Example; Sally O'Brien marries Tommy McCarthy. Now Sally is Sally McCarthy.

Also, is this a Christian Tradition? Big T or little t?

Little t. The Arab woman keeps her family name.

In Spanish culture they join both names with "y" "and."

IIRC, in Scandinavia until recently (and still in Iceland) a woman still kept her patronymic.

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In Serbia and Poland there is the same situation as in USA. However, nowdays in Poland it's more and more popular that woman keeps her last name and after "-" there is her husband's surname.

As for Spain (I don't know about other Spanish speaking countries, I'm sure only about Mexico - that's the same as in Spain), they have two surnames. The first one is after father's first surname, and the second one after first mother's surname. Married woman keeps her original surnames.

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My impression is that more often than not throughout human history, at least in the West (including Russia), women kept at least some marker of their father's family or clan name, just as they kept some kind of indelible rights to a paternal dowry.

The more important extended family/clan was, and the more marriage was seen as a social contract between two families, the more likely that a woman's name could never be subsumed by her husband's. Marriage was a unity of two houses, not merely two individuals.

Even today, though, where none of this obtains, I think it's safe to say that most (or at least a very large plurality of) women on Earth retain some marker of their father's house in their full name, particularly since the Chinese do so. This is true in the majority of Orthodox lands, e.g. Russia (patronymic), Greece (keep paternal surname), Middle East (keep paternal surname), etc., and also many Catholic ones.

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Here in the US, this has been pretty standard for the last 100+ years. Maybe longer. I'm curious as to if other countries practice this or not. Example; Sally O'Brien marries Tommy McCarthy. Now Sally is Sally McCarthy.

Also, is this a Christian Tradition? Big T or little t?

In Ethiopian tradition, children take their father's first name as their surname, and when women are married they keep their original surname (i.e., their father's first name)

stay blessed,habte selassie

This is the same in Kerala culture, except Malayalee wives also usually take their husbands first name as their last name as well.

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The Philippines has an interesting case. We adopted this from Spain after 333 years of colonization. When the Americans came we started using the American way of naming, so the maiden surname of the mother now becomes the middle name of the children. So my middle name is my mom's maiden surname and my children's middle name is my wife's maiden surname, this is despite my children being born in Canada.

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I know very little history, but my wife took my last name. It was not an option. If I had to guess, I think it probably took when mass immigrants started coming to America, to keep record keeping easier.

A further thought: It might actually be in *more* patriarchal cultures that women keep their paternal surname. It would be an insult to the authority of the father not to. In Rome, for example, most married women even remained under the legal authority of their father or grandfather after marriage.

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I would like to keep my maiden name because in Poland it's quite original and I'm very attached to it because it's one of these things that shows my Serbian origin. And to show and feel more I'm married I would take also my husband's name. Only if I married a Serbian, I would take his name. I know personally some women with both names and for me it sounds cool

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I would like to keep my maiden name because in Poland it's quite original and I'm very attached to it because it's one of these things that shows my Serbian origin. And to show and feel more I'm married I would take also my husband's name. Only if I married a Serbian, I would take his name. I know personally some women with both names and for me it sounds cool

Maybe some names sound cool, but not all of them. For example, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the German minister of justice, has a rather weird sounding name. But I imagine, with one Serbian and one Podachian Belarusian name it could be cool, something Like Dominika Milošević-Łukaszenka

I would like to keep my maiden name because in Poland it's quite original and I'm very attached to it because it's one of these things that shows my Serbian origin. And to show and feel more I'm married I would take also my husband's name. Only if I married a Serbian, I would take his name. I know personally some women with both names and for me it sounds cool

Maybe some names sound cool, but not all of them. For example, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the German minister of justice, has a rather weird sounding name. But I imagine, with one Serbian and one Podachian Belarusian name it could be cool, something Like Dominika Milošević-Łukaszenka

I beg to differ. That is an AWESOME sounding name auf Deutsch.

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